Theme: "Transcending Boundaries "

“ Well, if it can be thought, then it can be done" and the history is a witness of several ordinary folks
Who have always gone an extra mile to make the eccentric and unimaginable events to unravel. With an innovative approach and persistent vision at the tiniest of elements, can overcome the predefined definiteness, and this happens to those who believe. With this distrust of what is reasonable or virtual anymore, it is aimed to portray the artifice of thinking out of the box and transcending boundaries.

Shantai Sabhagrah
DY Patil Educational Complex, Sector 29, Nigdi Pradhikaran, Akurdi
Pune, Maharashtra, 411044
India

Aaquib Wani

experiential designer and art director

Aaquib Wani, Forbes 30 under 30 for Design ’21, is a self-taught experiential designer and art director with creative expertise in spaces, sets, interactive installations, weddings, visual, and graphic design, blending the aesthetic palettes absorbed through his Kashmiri heritage and upbringing in New Delhi. From working as the art director for a music magazine to learning the boundaries of space design, he has mastered the art of not just 2D but also 3D design. Backed by twelve years of experience, the studio ‘Aaquib Wani Design’ (AWD) works on marrying graphic design elements with unique and contemporary visuals to bring unparalleled aesthetics for fashion, art, spaces, and brands. He catches the intricacies of art and meticulously crafts them in his work so that people experience its essence. His eccentric artistic choices weaved with an effort to recognise the efforts of craftsmen and sustainable designs truly make him one of a kind.

Apurva Joshi

Founder Private Matters

An MBA by education she started her career in the male-dominated field of FMCG sales where she was the only girl in a male dominated field and that was her first brush with the prejudices and challenges women face in the corporate. She Founded Private Matters, a Digital Education initiative focussing on Empowering women through information on female health and wellness, mental health and body positivity. Her content catches the essence of the various subjects that concern women, tossing every bias that veils their potential. She projects the often tabooed topics with candour and humour, creating waves of introspection. To encapsulate her ethos of dismantling the boundaries of stereotypes and prejudices.

Kabir Khurana

Radio Jockey

RJ Kabir hosts the Morning show on 93.5 Red FM called Morning NO.1 and proudly hosts India’s Only LGBTQ+ Radio Show called Rainbow Diaries. He has consecutively won the Best RJ OF THE COUNTRY award twice and also NEW YORK AWARD for various campaigns. He is gifted with the ability to create a living room environment on the show, providing every listener the comfort to open up and voice their opinion without hesitation. It won’t be wrong to say that there is never a dull moment on Morning No. 1 and despite his outgoing personality, he can strike an emotional chord with his listeners. But what makes him extremely special is that he operates from a place of “The change begins with me”.

Kopal Naithani

ad-film director

Kopal Naithani is a prolific ad-film director who runs her own production house Superfly Films which she launched in 2016. She has worked with various renowned brand names such as Axis Bank, Byju, HUL, Flipkart and many others. Her vision is to deliver high-calibre films that focus on narratives and performances with top-notch production quality. Starting from being an AD to now a full-time director, Kopal always tries to give a different experience to the audience through her ad films.

Suprabha Seshan

conservationist and environmental educator

“Come forth into the light of things, let nature be your teacher.” – William Wordsworth and she did that. Suprabha is a conservationist and environmental educator committed to the rewilding of habitat and human beings. She lives and works at the Gurukula Botanical Sanctuary (GBS) in the Western Ghat Mountains in India. Learning from nature to protect nature better is the work of GBS, through its integrated conservation practices in land, species and community-based ecological nurturance. On behalf of the GBS team, Suprabha received the prestigious Whitely Award for Nature in 2006.